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Analyst: fighter tops off poor year for EA.
EA’s attempt to muscle in on the mixed martial arts market with EA Sports MMA has been an unmitigated failure, according to industry analysts.
Doug Creutz of Cowan & Company told GamesIndustry.biz, “EA’s recently released MMA appears to be more or less DOA at retail, while UFC recently announced an extension of its license with THQ, likely putting an end to EA’s efforts to expand into the mixed martial arts genre.”
Eurogamer’s Matt Edwards awarded EA Sports MMA a respectable 7/10 but the game could only manage a number 23 debut on the UK all-formats chart this week.
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Developer blows open MMO sequel.
MMO Kingdom Under Fire II works on Xbox 360 but still won’t be released until – at the earliest – Christmas 2011, Eurogamer can reveal.
Why? The same reason Champions Online struggled on console: the closed Xbox Live platform.
“Our initial plan was we wanted to develop the console version first – the Xbox 360 version,” KUFII game director Sang Youn-Lee told us. “We actually have completed the system, but because of the policy, we felt that if we kept developing [it] the PC version would have come out too late.”
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Xbox Live Update: Rockstar Games’ add-on for Western joined by Zen Studios’ Pinball FX 2, demos for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
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Xbox Live Update: Rockstar Games’ add-on for Western joined by Zen Studios’ Pinball FX 2, demos for Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
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Atari introducing a free-to-play option to its MMOG to attract a “new audience”.US-based developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Atari will change the payment model for its super-hero themed MMORPG Champions Online in the first quarter of 2011.
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Fable III! BlizzCon! Heightened enthusiasm! P42!
Good news everyone – following last week’s disgracefully tepid display from returning podcast host Tom Champion, order and, more importantly, enthusiasm has been restored for this 43rd instalment of our award-losing weekly production.
Yes, host Champion is joined by Eurogamer editor Tom Bramwell, fresh from a spell in the wonderful world of Albion, and reviews editor Oli Welsh, not so fresh after coming straight to the office from the airport on his way back from BlizzCon.
Stream the Eurogamer.net Podcast:
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Taste Majin.
An Xbox 360 demo for Game Republic’s Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom is available to download now.
Queue it up here so it’s sitting pretty in your Xbox 360 harddrive when you get home. But know this: it weighs in at 237.4 MB.
What is Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom? It’s described as a “new fusion of cooperative stealth and action”.
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Take superhero to max level for nothing.
Atari Europe and Cryptic Studios have announced a change to superhero MMO Champions Online: from Q1 2011 the game will be free-to-play.
In practice, that means anyone can download the game and play up to maximum level for free. There is no subscription and no upfront charge.
There will be a complimentary web-based and in-game C-Store, though, where you can grab things like items, powers, costumes and Adventure Packs for real-world money.
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Not long now.
The long-awaited patch for F1 2010 is in submission with Microsoft and Sony, Codemasters has revealed.
Once the approval process is completed it’ll be released into the wild for gamers to download, community manager Ian ‘Helios’ Webster said on the official forum.
“Keep an eye out on the forums, facebook, and Twitter, as we’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready to download,” he said.
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Social games giant’s estimated stock value has doubled since March.US-based analyst SharesPost has valued FarmVille maker Zynga at $5.51 billion on its index for privately held companies. In March SharesPost valued the company at $2.61 billion. The new valuation puts Zynga ahead of Electronic Arts’ Nasdaq stock market value of $5.16 billion.